Alternative Radio just aired a speech by a Rolling Stone reporter who got his start working in Yeltsin-era Russia, and has since been covering US politics and the Wall Street fiasco. He drew some interesting comparisons between what is happening with our banking system and the high-level corruption that he covered in Russia; both involve networks of powerful people rubbing one another’s backs and becoming obscenely rich at the expense of the public, while the media persist in telling the comfortable, easy-to-sell narrative that the elites spoon-feed them.

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Alternative Radio just aired a speech by a Rolling Stone reporter who got his start working in Yeltsin-era Russia, and has since been covering US politics and the Wall Street fiasco. He drew some interesting comparisons between what is happening with our banking system and the high-level corruption that he covered in Russia; both involve networks of powerful people rubbing one another’s backs and becoming obscenely rich at the expense of the public, while the media persist in telling the comfortable, easy-to-sell narrative that the elites spoon-feed them.

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